Re: Enemy Territory

From: Robin Schoonover (end_at_endif.cjb.net)
Date: 11/10/03

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To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl>

    On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:01:24 +0100, "Karel J. Bosschaart"
    <K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl> wrote:
    > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0700, Robin Schoonover wrote:
    > >
    > > Or maybe it was only partially installed (and some of the opengl libs
    > > weren't). That doesn't make sense... So I reinstalled the
    > > nvidia-driver from ports, and tried running tuxracer again. Doh!
    > > Crashed X. Of course, GLX isn't loaded, so it gets confused, so I'll
    > > just have to restart X....and I get this message:
    > >
    > > (II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension
    > >
    > > Well, that looks promising. Fire up Descent 3 and....Wow. Descent 3
    > > is a lot different from the first one. So much higher resolution...
    > >
    > > Well, thanks for the help. (although this may be a bad thing..how will
    > > I get -anything- real done??)
    > >
    > Maybe you did a portupgrade or reinstall of XFree86-Server? This will
    > overwrite some files installed by the nvidia driver. I'm always
    > reinstalling nvidia-driver after upgrading XFree86-Server/libraries
    > just to be sure. It's also necessary to reinstall the nvidia driver
    > after upgrading FreeBSD.

    I just realized that was exactly what happened. (I already had been
    remembering to reinstall nvidia-driver after updating FreeBSD, but forgot
    about XFree86)

    > I prefer to reboot the machine after any nvidia-driver reinstall to
    > be entirely sure that I have the newest kernel module loaded. Yes,
    > that's ugly, but I got a bit reluctant on kldunload/kldload'ing this
    > sort of critical things. My home desktop doesn't have a large uptime
    > anyway as I'm turning it off if I don't need it.

    I know the nvidia driver is the same. I didn't even have this machine
    before the last update (July). (But it might be a good idea anyway...) 

    -- 
Robin Schoonover (aka End)
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